Various Tables of Annuities. SS7 



The population of England according to the census of 1811 

 was 9,538,827, and according to that of 1821, 11,261,437, making 

 the mean annual rate of increase of the population 1,0167. 



The baptisms in 1810 were 298,853, and in 1820, 343,660, 

 making the mean annual rate of increase 1,01 40. 



Mr. Richman considers the census of 1821 more accurate 

 than that of 1811, if therefore we suppose the ratio of the births 

 to the population to have been constant during this short inter- 

 val between these enumerations, so that the real rate of increase 

 of the population was only 1,0140, we have 9,792,600 for the 

 population in 1811 instead of 9,538,827, and 1,468,837 for the 

 increase of the population between 1811 and 1821. A comparison 

 of the registered baptisms and bui'ials during the same time 

 gives an apparent increase of only 1,245,000. See Mr. Richman's 

 observations prefixed to the Population Report 1821. 



Hence if the increase was really 1,468,837, the average yearly 

 excess of unentered baptisms over unentered burials is 22,383, 

 and if with Mr. Richman we admit the average number of 

 unentered burials yearly to be 8,770, the average number of 

 unentered baptisms will be 31,153. The baptisms in England 

 in 1820, were 328,230. 



328,230 + 22,383 _ 3506l3 _ 1 



11,261,437 ~ 11,261,437 ~ 32,044 ' 



which ratio does not materially differ from that given above, in 

 deducing which the average yearly number of unentered baptisms 

 was supposed to be 20,696. The ratio of the population to the 

 deaths was found by adding 8,770 to 198,634 the total of the 

 burials in 1820, and to the marriages by adding 191 to 91.729 

 the marriages in the same year and dividing by 11,261,437. See 

 p. 145 of the Rej)ort above alluded to. 



Mr. Benoiston de Chateauneuf in the Annales des Sciences 

 Naturelles 1826, gives the following numbers as the ratio of the 

 births to the marriages in 



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